Bahiacaris Schweitzer & Santana & Pinheiro & Feldmann 2023, n. gen.

Bahiacaris n. gen. http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 0B9F091B-F98E-49A7-B794-E250DB722900 Bahiacaris Schweitzer, Santana, Pinheiro & Feldmann, 2019: 72 [unavailable]. Diagnosis. Carapace high and short; rostrum about 30% total length of carapace, minutely serrate on upper margin. Scaphocerite not extending beyond rostrum. Pleonal somite 2 overlapping somites 1 and 3, variable in size. Telson sharp in lateral view, with apparent square tip in dorsal view; tip with setae; with 2 pairs of movable spines dorsally. Uropodal endopod and exopod narrow, much longer than wide; exopod inner margin weakly serrate, outer margin with setal pits. Third maxillipeds shorter than pereiopods 3–5. Pereiopods 1 and 2 shorter and with more bulbous articles than pereiopods 3–4. Type species. Atyoida roxoi Beurlen, 1950, by present designation. Type age. Lower Cretaceous (Aptian). Etymology. The genus name is derived from the state of Bahia in Brazil, where the specimen was collected, and ‘caris’, from the Greek for crab, a common stem in the group. Gender: feminine. Remarks. A full description and stratigraphic account of Bahiacaris n. gen. is given by Schweitzer et al. (2019).Published as part of Schweitzer, Carrie E., Santana, William, Pinheiro, Allysson & Feldmann, Rodney M., 2023, Validation of Bahiacaris Schweitzer, Santana, Pinheiro & Feldmann (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from the Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil, pp. 299-300 in Zootaxa 5318 (2) on page 299, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5318.2.13, http://zenodo.org/record/816245